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Rhcsa Exam by Eng. Abeer Hosni

This document outlines the tasks for the RHCSA 8 (EX 200) practical exam, which has a maximum of 300 marks and lasts 2.5 hours. It provides details on the systems setup and IP addresses. The 20 tasks cover a range of Red Hat system administration skills including modifying the boot process, configuring repositories, setting the system time, adding IP addresses, enabling packet forwarding, logical volume management, filesystem management, user and group management, directory permissions, firewall configuration, scripting, and cron jobs. Completing all tasks with SELinux and firewalld enabled within the allotted time is required to pass the exam with a score of 210 or higher out of 300 total marks.

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Rhcsa Exam by Eng. Abeer Hosni

This document outlines the tasks for the RHCSA 8 (EX 200) practical exam, which has a maximum of 300 marks and lasts 2.5 hours. It provides details on the systems setup and IP addresses. The 20 tasks cover a range of Red Hat system administration skills including modifying the boot process, configuring repositories, setting the system time, adding IP addresses, enabling packet forwarding, logical volume management, filesystem management, user and group management, directory permissions, firewall configuration, scripting, and cron jobs. Completing all tasks with SELinux and firewalld enabled within the allotted time is required to pass the exam with a score of 210 or higher out of 300 total marks.

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2020

RHCSA Exam
by
Eng. Abeer Hosni
RHCSA 8 (EX 200) Practical Exam
Max. Marks: 300
Duration: 2.5 Hours (150 Minutes)
Passing Score: 210/300

Systems setup:
Hostname: server1.tshoot.com

 IP: 192.168.1.150/24
 Gateway: 192.168.1.1
 DNS: 8.8.8.8
 username: root
 password: asd@123

Hostname: server2.tshoot.com

 IP: 192.168.1.151/24
 Gateway: 192.168.1.1
 DNS: 8.8.8.8

Note:
Ensure that all the tasks are implemented with firewalld and SELinux enabled.

1- Interrupt the boot process and reset the root password. Change it to “redhat” to gain access
to the system.
2- Repositories are available on the repo server at:
http://server1.tshoot.com /BaseOS
http://server1.tshoot.com /AppStream
3- The system time should be set to your time-zone and ensure that NTP sync in configured.
4- Verify that client is using the network, IP, DNS & GW settings as mentioned above in the
instructions. If not then make necessary corrections.
5- Add the following secondary IP Address statically to your currently running interface.
It should be done in such a way that it doesn’t compromise your existing settings.
IPv4 – 10.0.0.100/24
IPv6 - fd01::100/64
6- Enable packet forwarding on the server2, it should persist after reboot.
7- Server2 should boot in multi-user target by default and boot messages should be present
there (not silenced).
8- Create a new 2 GB volume group named “vgexam”.
9- Create a 500 MB logical volume named “lvexam” inside the “vgexam” volume group.
10- The “lvexam” logical volume should be formatted with XFS filesystem and mount
persistently on the /mnt/lvexam directory.
11- Extend the XFS filesystem on “lvexam” by 500 MB.
12- Use the appropriate utility creates a 4TiB thin provisioned volume.
13- Configure a basic web server that displays “Welcome to the New World” once
connected to it. Ensure the firewall allows the http/https services.
14- Find all files that are larger than 4 MB in the /etc directory & copy them to /find/largefiles
directory.
15- Write a script named tshoot.sh in the root directory on server2:
a) If “Tshoot” is given as an argument, then the script should give an output as
“Tshoot is awesome.”
b) If “students” is given as argument, then the script should give the output as
“students are great.”
c) If the argument is anything else or empty, then the script should give the output
as “Please use Tshoot|students to get the output.”
16- Create users abeer, malek, mohamed & ahmed.
a) All the new users should have a file named as “welcome” in their home directories after
accounts creation.
b) All user passwords should expire after 60 days and be at least 8 characters in length
c) Users abeer and malek should be in the “HR” group, if the group doesn’t already
exist, create it.
d) Users mohamed & ahmed should be in the “IT” group, if the group doesn’t already exist,
create it.
17- Only the members of the HR group should have access to the /HR directory.
Make abeer the owner of this directory, make the HR group the group owner of this
directory.
18- Only the members of the IT group should have access to the /IT directory. Make mohamed
the owner of this directory, make the IT group the group owner of this directory.
19- The new files should be owned by the group owner and only the file creators should
have the permissions to delete their own files.
20- Create a cron job that writes “The practice exam was very easy & I am ready to clear
the RHCSA certification” to /var/log/messages file at 01:00 PM at weekdays only.

Best Wishes

Abeer 

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